Late last year we started hearing that Peter and Bobby Farrelly were eager to return for a sequel to their 1994 breakout comedy, and that both Daniels and Jim Carrey would once again don hideous hairstyles and Harry and Lloyd.  With Hot Tub Time Machine writing duo Sean Anders and John Morris taking care of the screenplay, the Farrelly Brothers were looking to make Dumb & Dumber To – the sequel's current title, apparently – as early as this September.

In June, however, Jim Carrey revealed that he would be leaving the sequel due to a lack of enthusiasm from New Line and Warner Bros.  Since the ill-advised 2003 prequel Dumber and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd proved conclusively that a Dumb & Dumber without Carrey isn't a good idea, that seemed to suggest that the sequel would flounder in development.

Not so, says Daniels.  Speaking with Crave Online's Fred Topel at the Television Critics Association panel for The Newsroom, the HBO series on which he stars, Daniels said Carrey's still involved, Dumb & Dumber To could shoot next summer.  According to Daniels,

“Jim wants to do it. I want to do it. The Farrellys want to do it. They want to rewrite the script a little bit and they aren’t trying to jam it in before I have to go back and do ‘Newsroom’ in November. So they’re going, ‘Why don’t we just do it right? Let’s get everybody organized to go next May or June.’ If everything works out on the business side, that’s what we’ll do but I think there’s more hope than ever.”

As for why Carrey publicly kicked up a little dust on the sequel this summer, Daniels explained,

“I understood why, because this has been a year and a half of a whole bunch of are we, aren’t we, what’s going on, yeah the script’s funny, no it’s not, now we have to have notes. So I think Jim just got frustrated and I completely got it. I was frustrated too. We thought it was in pretty good shape. The studio and others wanted some more work done it. The Farrellys wanted more work done on it so they got working on it and I think last week they decided to push the shooting of it to next year, possibly because I wasn’t going to move ‘The Newsroom.’”

So there you have it from a source no less reliable than Harry Dunne himself.  Daniels implies that continued script work is being done by the Farrellys themselves, which would make sense now that Anders is moving on to direct the Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy Three Mississippi. 

We might just see a Dumb & Dumber sequel if Daniels' hopes turn out to be well-founded.  With production not beginning until next summer at the earliest, the continued adventures of Harry and Lloyd probably wouldn't arrive in theaters until 2014, a solid twenty years after the first proved conclusively that you don't need a radio on a long road trip: